WROX has just published one of the first (if not the first) ASP.NET 2.0 books -- it is a solid one, Professional ASP.NET 2.0 and I reccommend to anyone who is serious about working with VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 -- Bill Evjen , Scott Hanselman , Farhan...

The official launch of Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET F/X 2.0 is still 10 days away, but you can download the .NET F/X 2.0 right now -- so get it on your box and get ready to start building sites with ASP.NET 2.0 -- oh and for a sneak peak at the new...

Sorry for the delay, but it will be worth it -- the 10 part, 120-page provider whitepaper is ready -- the next stage is in production now and should be ready by the end of the year.
These will be featured heavily on http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net...

http://blog.phanfare.com/
I blogged earlier about a cool photo sharing product called Phanfare and I recently stumbled across their blog where they are discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly of developing client applications for use against their...

Second article in Bill Evjen's Jumpstart series went live today. For those who didn't remember article #1, this series is about creating a Starter Kit from scratch in ASP.NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005. In this article, Bill designs and builds the database...

Bill Evjen launched the first article in his JumpStart series that will walk users through a new starter kit called the Media Share Library Starter Kit and show them how to build that kit up from scratch -- a very fun and easy way to get started using...

That is right folks, the new ASP.NET 2.0 Virtual Labs are live -- you can go in, walk through the labs, and never have to install bits on your machine -- if you like what you see, then you can download Visual Web Developer Express and get going -- launch...

Kent did a lot of work the past few weeks to get all kinds of new content online --- and I'm going to steal his words to get this info out there :)
During the PDC, we participated in a little bit of the Atlas joy by hosting the "How to install...

While at the PDC I ran into my good friends who work in the "Federal" group at Microsoft. They are responsible for developer and platform work specifically for Federal projects. They are trying to get the word out about their new blog which is for anyone...

I’ve never been the best at keeping secrets, especially the kind of secrets that everyone should really know about… but I’ve been forced to make some compromises lately. I’m incredibly excited to begin talking about “Quartz Web Designer” because it just...

I’ve disappeared for a bit because I had focus in on the many different great things we just finished announcing at the PDC. We talked about it for awhile now, but the ASP.NET “Atlas” web site is now LIVE ! You can download the bits, read the quickstarts...

Finally complete, the Beginners Guide to Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. This 14 part video series walks users through the absolute basics and then walks through a very cool ‘quiz’ application to help users get acquainted with what VWD and...

One of the best new features in ASP.NET 2.0 is the integrated support for site localization. There is no question in my mind that multi-lingual site development is often becoming a key requirement. So I thought it would be useful to build some very relevant...

In conjunction with WaSP members (like Dean Edwards and others) and other experts, Markus Mielke created an awesome article on HasLayout that explains what it is, how it works, and how it affects Web developers and designers who are trying to build Web...

This article was written awhile ago but got stuck in our MSDN Editorial queue (with about 10 other articles still sadly) but they are coming out -- if you are interested in Standards based design this article does a great job of explaining how things...

I heard about Phanfare , several months back and knew that it was a very cool use of the .NET Framework -- but until I started using it recently it never occurred to me just how well done it is. With ASP.NET on the back end driving the website and a Smart...

Over time our plan is to turn these blog posts into whitepapers, but why wait for the official content when you can have it now? Scott Guthrie has been busy writing up some great articles to help you with ASP.NET 2.0 and VS05
We have gotten a lot of...

Check out these recently launched whitepapers that detail the site navigation system and custom site map providers for ASP.NET 2.0
Understanding and Extending the Site Navigation System in ASP.NET 2.0 http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/default...

Scott has been busy preparing lots of useful content -- this is even *more* info about the new Web project system, specifically as it relates to IIS projects. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/23/423409.aspx

We recently posted a detailed article describing the changes between Beta2 and RTM of ASP.NET 2.0. One of the biggest changes the the removal of the Diskbased output caching and I wanted to post some more information about that, the rationale, and workarounds...

Scott Guthrie just posted all the juicy details about the ASP.NET 2.0 and VS2005 project system and tools support. This post addresses a lot of the issues that people have been facing with the Beta 2 version of the product and shows all the changes/fixes...

It is time to start preparing for the RTM of ASP.NET 2.0 and in order to do that I've had the team prepare a great paper that outlines the major changes that we've made since Beta 2. Find it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/beta2rtmchanges...